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Populate a variable from command execution
Is it possible to use command executions to populate a variable in resticprofile?
Example:
The application I want to backup uses user-configurable storage paths, and I want to back them up as I perform application backups, so I need to ask the application to give me a list of locations where it has stored stuff.
curl https://my.app/api/v1/storage-locations gives me back a list with storage locations, and I'd like to use that to populate the sources directive.
I've found ways to assign variables directly, and I've found ways to reference environment variables, so I could write a wrapper around resticprofile to first get the stuff I need, store it in the environment and then call resticprofile, but this seems counter-intuitive.
Is there any other way that I can do this natively?
Hey!
Actually you can already do that with a feature waiting to be released:
https://github.com/creativeprojects/resticprofile/pull/323
Would that work for you?
You can try to compile resticprofile from the main branch if you want to test it out.
I guess a new release is overdue 😆
